Lilium 2010

[David Nicholson]

Lilium regale, seed raised.

[David Pilling]

Well done David!

ISTR those were seed from Maggi.

[johnw]

John:  I got 3 bulbs of the pink Lilium mackliniae as a present from a friend - lucky me.  Seed heads are forming as I write so I'll hope to let you have some seed later in the year.  The SRGC Seed Exchange has also had seed of this lily for the past 3 to 4 years so will probably have more next year - I've got some seedlings growing on as well.
I'll try to find out who collected the original seed - or maybe Maggi knows - and will post the info if I'm successful.

Liz  - We got seeds from Finn Haugli and he got them from Gelndoick as well. His were dark.  They haven't sprouted yet but fingers are crossed.  Did Ken Cox not introduce it?

johnw

[johnw]

How did you determine the name?
Cheers
Göte
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By relying on my memory instead of the label which reads michiganense.    

johnw

[Maggi Young]

John:  I got 3 bulbs of the pink Lilium mackliniae as a present from a friend - lucky me.  Seed heads are forming as I write so I'll hope to let you have some seed later in the year.  The SRGC Seed Exchange has also had seed of this lily for the past 3 to 4 years so will probably have more next year - I've got some seedlings growing on as well.
I'll try to find out who collected the original seed - or maybe Maggi knows - and will post the info if I'm successful.

Liz  - We got seeds from Finn Haugli and he got them from Gelndoick as well. His were dark.  They haven't sprouted yet but fingers are crossed.  Did Ken Cox not introduce it?

johnw

Yes, John , as Pascal said on the previous page, Glendoick are selling these bulbs. It was Ken who introduced it I believe, though I'm not sure that Henry and Margaret Taylor did not collect seed of such a plant, also. 

[Liz Mills]

The bulbs I got were from the same friend, Pascal - and they came from Glendoick.  But I wasn't sure whether the Coxes collected the original seed or whether it was Margaret and Henry Taylor.  The seed in the Seed Exchange in 2006/7 was definitely donated by Margaret and Henry.  I'll try to find out more.

[Diane Clement]

The bulbs I got were from the same friend, Pascal - and they came from Glendoick.  But I wasn't sure whether the Coxes collected the original seed or whether it was Margaret and Henry Taylor.  The seed in the Seed Exchange in 2006/7 was definitely donated by Margaret and Henry.  I'll try to find out more. 

I think Glendoick was the first introduction, (they describe it as "deep purple-pink") but Henry and Margaret have been also distributing seed through the exchanges (SRGC and AGS) from plants labelled "dark pink" or "dark rose" "ex Nagaland" - whether that is the same as the Coxes, or whether their own, I don't know.  Also Henry and Margaret have crossed the dark pink with the normal white form and they are calling this "Tantallon hybrid" and seed under this name has also been distributed through the exchanges. 
Just wish I could grow any of them 

[Pascal B]

According to the Cox website the introduction was from Mt Javpo which is, in contrast to what I said, not Arunachal Pradesh but indeed lies in Nagaland close to the border with Burma. Sorry, my bad....
Were Margaret and Henry Taylor on that same trip as Ken Cox or did they go independently?

I grow some other plants from that area send by a friend from India which are very unusual so the state of Nagaland is already high on my list of places to do fieldwork because no doubt many more interesting species and forms are waiting to be found. Unfortunately the Indians make it very hard to travel in some of these areas, even more so for the areas Kingdon Ward has visited close to the Chinese border. For years now I have been trying to go to the Mishmi Hills in Arunachal Pradesh to see Arisaema rhizomatum in the field but even the director of the Botanical Survey of India couldn't help me in my battle with the Indian burocrats for permits...
So I am glad at least some of the more unusual NE Indian plants have already found there way into cultivation (although in this case not to my collection yet...sob..)

[Hristo]

These were all moved two years ao and are flowering now for the first time in their new positions;
L.tigrinum
L.pardalinum
L.pardalinum ssp. shastense
L.regale ( a liitle lost in the vegetation compared to David's fine specimen )

[Graham Catlow]

Can someone identify this orange lily for me please.
I bought it from a respectable lily supplier as 'Enchantment' but it turned out not to be anything like the 'Enchantment' I used to grow. This doesn't produce bulbils in the leaf axils which I'm sure 'Enchantment' does.

Graham

[fermi de Sousa]

Can someone identify this orange lily for me please.
I bought it from a respectable lily supplier as 'Enchantment' but it turned out not to be anything like the 'Enchantment' I used to grow. This doesn't produce bulbils in the leaf axils which I'm sure 'Enchantment' does.

Graham

Hi Graham,
it looks a bit like Asiatic Lilium "Baja" or one of the other "brush-mark" types,
cheers
fermi

[Ray]

Hi Graham,looks like Lilium Loreto to me bye Ray

[Paul T]

My immediate reaction is 'Loreto', to the last brushmarked lilium.  But whether there are others overseas similar I don't know.  If I saw it here in Aus, I'd think it was Loreto anyway.  I've not seen Baja, so obviously there are other similar ones here in Aus now too. 

[bulborum]

To give an idea where you have to look for
Enchantment is one of the cheapest lilies
if the wholesaler is replacing it because he is out of stock
than it will be one of the cheapest var
but there are thousands of LA types
so probably impossible to find out
the sure exact name
but send me a pm with a large picture
and I will ask around for you

Roland

[Paul T]

Roland,

What makes you think it is an LA rather than an Asiatic type?